Viktor Fasth goal keeper for the Anaheim Ducks practices with his team at The Rinks of Anaheim Ice. MICHAEL LOPEZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

ANAHEIM – We've seen him win in regulation and in shootouts.

We've seen him win when allowing five goals and when allowing none.

We've seen him win on the road (five times) and at home (three more times).

We've seen everything already from Viktor Fasth, huh?

Actually, no. There's one thing we haven't seen, and that's because all Fasth has done so far is win.

What we haven't seen the goalie do is lose – lose it, we mean.

In a revelation Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau calls "hard to believe," Fasth contends he has a temper, which does sound strange coming from a 30-year-old NHL rookie who, during his 8-0 career start, continually has been cited for his flat-line approach and relentless composure.

Says teammate Andrew Cogliano, "He's like cool as ice in the net."

Perhaps to date, but...

"Oh, no, I never fight anyone," Fasth explains. "I think it's more when you lose. I hate to lose, like everybody else playing this sport. You always want to win. I try to stay as cool as possible. But sometimes you get (ticked) off."

Viktor the Volkano? Maybe that's a bit much, but the Ducks would be just fine with Fasth's temper staying unlit, with their backup (at least we think) backstop remaining mostly a mystery.

Frankly, thanks in part to this year's abbreviated preseason, the Ducks know nothing about Fasth beyond the fact he's fully Swedish and completely perfect.

They don't know that his father, Kenteric, was a goalie or that his younger brother, Gustav, is a goalie.

They don't know that, through age 13, he also played forward, the position his father wanted him to pursue.

They don't know that, when he was in Sweden's lower leagues, he supplemented his income by teaching autistic high school students.

"I was pretty good, I think," Fasth says. "I guess you'd have to ask the kids."

All the Ducks really know is that this stranger has helped them to the second-best start in the NHL despite an injury to Jonas Hiller, who, last season, played more minutes than any goalie in the league.

"When we signed him, I knew he was an experienced guy but that's about it," defenseman Toni Lydman says. "I didn't expect him to, you know, start breaking records right away. He's still on his way, I guess, but what a start."

You might say it has been a Fasth start. That is, if you want to use a phrase that already has been pounded persistently into keyboards and thumbed to death in tweets.

This guy's name is a dream to those who love to play with their words. Yeah, we're talking to you, Steve Carroll, the radio voice of the Ducks and a man who can produce puns like the Ducks have been producing points.

They're going crazy in Sweden? Well, good news does travel Fasth. The Ducks sit atop the Pacific Division? Hey, they're enjoying life in the Fasth lane. The goalie already signed a two-year contract extension? So, he made a Fasth buck.

We could continue down this Fasth and furious road, but we're done trying to pull a Fasth one. Before we go, though, we'd like to conclude by noting that Viktor Fasth's eight starts have resulted in eight Viktories.

OK, seriously, we'll stop now.

"I try to enjoy every day and I really do," says Fasth, who, before signing as an undrafted free agent in May of 2012, never even had been to the United States. "I try to go out in the sun as much as possible between games and practices."

He has a fiancée, and the couple has a baby daughter. Mother and child arrived here last week, and Fasth finally was able to leave the hotel he had been staying in for something more permanent. A trip to Disneyland can't be far off.

Fasth emerged from relative obscurity while with Sweden's national team in 2011, but only after two other goalies decided against playing.

Back home, his parents have been able to watch most of the Ducks telecasts, even if the pregame show comes on predawn. For a 7 p.m. start here, the puck drops there at 4 a.m. the next day.

"I think they're proud," Fasth says. "It has been a long wait for me and for them, too. It feels great to be here. It's what I always dreamt about."

The dream could continue tonight, when the Ducks play host to Colorado, although there's no guarantee Fasth will start. Hiller is back, and Boudreau is facing the normally welcomed problem of having two goalies playing at a level worthy of No. 1.

The coach has to hope the situation doesn't change, in the best interest of the Ducks and of Fasth's reputation as a competitor whose demeanor is as level as the ice surface and just as chilled.

"That's the first time I've heard that," Boudreau says of Fasth's claim of possessing a temper. "But a hot head in Sweden might be an awful lot different than Ron Hextall in Philadelphia, you know?"

He's right. It's a matter of viewpoint and, so far, the Ducks are loving the look of the stranger standing behind them, hidden by the mask.

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